The PaaSage professional network introduces various tools in a user's personal area to facilitate management of model-based distributed applications.
Software can assist in performing that task, by supporting common management functions such as storage, search and version management of models.
These needs have also driven the development of new options in the framework, including the internal management of modeling data and the integration discussion topics in-line with wiki content.
The mission of Common Enterprise Modelling Framework for Distributed Organisations (CEMF-DO) is to provide, within distributed organisations, a common framework in which modelling, simulation, analysis and management of models for designing interoperability solutions are explored and integrated.
Cross-organizational collaborations require the management of models for: collaborative business processes (CBPs), which define the collaboration's behavior; and integration business processes (IBPs), which define the behavior that supports the role an organization performs in a CBP.
Data management of models is further supported by the capability to link models to data and vice versa simulated data to models.
Both challenges can only be resolved with an appropriate tool support for variant and version management of modular models and for model validation to supervise the interdisciplinary compatibility.
Model metadata is used to facilitate the understanding, characteristics, and management of the model.
A number of challenges in collaborative model building include definition of data standards, agreement on approval processes, and life-cycle management of the model and knowledge; however, the opportunity lies in the advancements in predicting drug safety and efficacy.
These tools were used for management of SBOL model structure, to create a scheme for unique identification of elements, and to reference the Sequence Ontology [42], a third party ontology.
